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Major U.S. tech companies pledge to cover electricity costs for new AI data centers as energy demands surge. A single 100-megawatt data center consumes roughly the same electricity as 80,000 U.S. households, with facilities now being designed for gigawatt capacity.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three critical vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, requiring federal agencies to patch by March 2026. These vulnerabilities are being actively used in attacks against government entities.

Tesla released teaser photos of the Optimus robot's third-generation hands via official social media channels. The new hand design closely resembles human hands, with significantly improved dexterity. Industry analysts say this marks a major breakthrough in Tesla's humanoid robot development.

Apple releases all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips featuring Fusion Architecture and neural network accelerators. GPU performance increases by 50%, with local AI model inference up to 3.6x faster.

Microsoft announces deep integration of Anthropic's Claude agentic AI tool with Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing AI to autonomously work across documents, emails, and other office tools. This decision marks OpenAI's diminished role in Microsoft's office ecosystem.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4, calling it "a big step toward autonomous AI agents." The new model delivers major breakthroughs in factual accuracy, reasoning efficiency, and multi-round information gathering.

Google's latest threat report warns that AI is accelerating cloud cyberattacks, with third-party tools becoming attackers' primary target, giving businesses only days to prepare defenses.

Japanese government plans to grow semiconductor industry annual sales to 40 trillion yen ($250 billion) by 2040 to meet growing demand for AI and data center chips.

Latest report shows India's data centre market projected to reach $13 billion by 2034, with AI workloads expected to account for nearly 30% of total data centre capacity by 2026.

Smart Factory + Automation World 2026 (AW 2026) held from March 4-6 at COEX exhibition center in Seoul, showcases manufacturing transformation driven by AI and humanoid robotics.